Draumalandið is the soundtrack to an icelandic documentary about the exploitation of Iceland's natural resources of the same name.Amongst others, the score features Valgeir's collaborators and Bedroom Community labelmates Ben Frost, Sam Amidon and Nico Muhly. This leads to a very wide instrumentarium (for example, combining electronic sounds with hauting string sections and banjo) while still managing to keep a coherent overall sound. …

There's a worse death than death itself. If nothing mattered, if nothing changed, if no possible action resulted in hope -- well, that's the sort of world we'd have if we banned death, natural selection, sadism, evil and darkness.